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 Buildings
linked with Beethoven |
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The Josefstadt theatre was built in 1788 and is still active. It was reconstructed in 1822. For this occasion, Beethoven composed his "Consecration of the House", opus 124, which he conducted himself for the opening ceremony...
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The Kinsky Palace, built between 1713 and 1716. Prince Kinsky, was one of Beethoven's three patrons, along with the Archduke Rudolph and Prince Lobkowitz, from 1809... |
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The Pallavicini Palace, built in 1783-1784, was a meeting place for artistocratical music lovers. Beethoven could often be found here... |
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Theater 'An der Wien' |
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The theatre "An der Wien" was built in 1801. It was here that Fidelio was first performed in 1805... |
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thanks to Sylvie Laurent who took these
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 Lobkowitz
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Lobkowitz Palace, home to the Prince who was an amateur musician and a great admiror of Beethoven. He had an orchestra at his palace, which he put at Beethoven's disposition for his early works. Prince Lobkowitz became one of Beethoven's three patrons from 1809, along with the Archduke Rudolph and Prince Kinsky...
Thanks
to Marianne and Steve Braem |
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thanks to Sylvie Laurent who took these
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) The front of the Lobkowitz Palace |
) The 'Eroïca Saal' |
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| Beethoven
last house: Schwarzspanierhaus |
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There are several houses in which Beethoven lived . Some have since been demolished, but the town of Vienna holds in high regard the places where Beethoven stayed, even for a short time. A fine example of this is the house in which Beethoven died, the Schwarzspanierhaus (House of the Black-Robed Spaniards), now destroyed, is remembered with this plaque...
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| Gerhard von Breuning wrote: "Beethoven's windows were on this top (second story) row, beginning with the fifth counting from the church) and ending with the ninth (the one beyond the main entrance)"... |
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The Schwarzspanierhaus before its destruction. |
The door and the lock of Beethoven's last place... |
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| Pasqualatihaus,
former living quarters, now museum |
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thanks to Sylvie Laurent who took these
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| Many
thanks to Hannah SALTER for her translation
of this page from French into English © Dominique PREVOT |
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Beethoven
stayed several times at Pasqualatihaus, built
in 1797. It's now a little museum to visit.